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...patrol, Miller actually believes in that old Olympic canard that it's playing the game that counts. "Despite all the pressure and the caliber of accomplishment, I still can honestly say it is not all about winning," he told TIME during pre-Olympic training at Colorado's Copper Mountain. The important thing to him is to try to ski well - to improve, to reach his own goals - and most important, to have a good time. (Watch an interview with Bode Miller...
...hello to skiing's wild child, a mountain prodigy who grew up plumbing-free, electricity-free and constraint-free in a house hand-built by his parents in a forest near Franconia, N.H. As a kid, Miller spent as many winter hours skiing at nearby Cannon Mountain as he did in the classroom. In his teens, he was all but dismissed as being uncoachable. But, last year his World Cup triumph was the first by an American in 22 years. His prowess is such that he could win a medal in any of five Alpine skiing events at the Olympic...
...outraged family members, the delay was a tinderspark that ignited a fury against the company. "I was disgusted," said Christine Yocum, whose cousin David Lewis died underground. "I understand you can't get perfect reception under a mountain. But when they learned there was a problem, they should have announced it immediately...
...some 75 camps throughout Kashmir is an eclectic mix of professional aid workers, foreign volunteers, Islamic extremists and soldiers (Pakistan alone has committed about 40,000 troops to relief efforts). In some cases, old adversaries have set aside their enormous differences, at least for now. Before the quake, the mountain valleys of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir were off-limits to outsiders. Called Azad Kashmir (Free Kashmir) by the Pakistanis, the area was cordoned off by the army because, in the decades-long conflict with India for control of Kashmir, Azad was an unofficial war zone. The bus stations and grungy hotels...
...Meanwhile, the frantic efforts of relief workers like George continue. But with blizzard season setting in and supplies short, he feels increasingly helpless. "There's just not enough aid getting up the mountain," George says. "And we're running out of time...